One Hundred Immortals on a Journey
Original Language Title明 蟠桃會
CultureChinese
Date17th century
MediumHandscroll; color on silk
DimensionsOverall: 15 1/8 × 155 inches (38.42 × 393.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Frederick Schultheis
Object number53-47
On View
Not on viewCollections
Exhibition HistoryKansas City Public Library. Exhibition. November 3-25, 1961.
The popular story of the Queen Mother of the West, a Daoist female deity, prompted high demand for more paintings like this one in the 1600s. The gemstone-like blue and green color scheme embellishes the Queen Mother’s paradise of Mount Kunlun. Here, Queen Mother’s playful and mischievous immortal guests are captured on their way to the Festival of the Peaches of Longevity. The immortals flaunt their supernatural powers by riding on animals, lotus leaves, and even a sword across the sea.
Frederick Schultheis;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.
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